Recent content by Peter Webster

I have just taken a further look. It seems as though the doorframe is fixed to a lump of wood that is itself fixed to the flooring joists. You can see the lump of wood in the first pictures i attached. So the door frame is connected to that and then that is connected to the floor joist that is...

Thanks for the quick replies Opps. The unpainted timber below the door frame, sits back from the doorway. I have attached a picture to try and show this, so the door frame does not sit atop anything directly below it, apart from a brick at either end. Unfortunately the hallway is tiled so i...

Hi Opps. Yes that wood is solid and i believe it sits atop the cellar walls which is directly below the hallway. The floor joints run parallel to the door and the floorboards run perpendicular. So i think the hallway floor is supported but i dont believe there is anything supporting the door...

Thanks Blup- do you mean just brick up under the door ledge the whole way across? thanks Pete

Hi, we have an Edwardian house built in 1905. We have a cellar directly under the hallway. We are currently replacing the front steps and path and now that the steps have been pulled way there appears to be very little support below the front door. When the steps were there, there was just a...